Student budget

York, would recomend having some money to one side in the budget< you will be surprised how often demands for £20 here and there come up

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One other thing to be careful about in student life isn't just your own budget but also the budget of those around you. Unsurprisingly, other students are going to have a hard time managing their own money and if you still look liquid to the end of a term then you'll suddenly find yourself with a lot of friends with well meant promises to sort you out later, return the favour and guilt tripping because they would do the same if the situations were reversed.

I learnt to be very cagey about the actual state of my finances and often represented my situation as close to flat broke from around the middle of term.